Category Archives: Parenting

This week I was deeply moved by a phone call by a woman asking about resources on the topic of dementia. It’s a close to home but hard to talk about topic. Here are a few of the real challenges … Continue reading →

A local celebrity and shaper of children and childhood has died. Many Manitobans who grew up in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s raced home from school to tune in to Aunt Olly’s Children’s Party on the radio (Station CFAM). Listening to … Continue reading →

Photos: Stick Ceremony and Elkhorn Residential School (closed, 1949) Yesterday was a historic day for Canada. After six years of careful listening and recording of the stories of survivors of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (the last of which closed in … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Practicing Families: by Amy Yoder McGloughlin, Mennonite Pastor and parent of two teenagers. On Sunday I baptized two young people in my congregation–one was thirteen, and one was thirty. Both talked–from their own developmental place–about the…